What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[mjmjr25]

Went to meet a buddy from neo and picked up some arcade game storage boxes then went out for lunch w/the family.

Kids wanted more stuff added to the Ninja Course so called up my dad and asked to him to bring some cable over - then I took the kids on a hardware / wood run to Menards.

In 3 hours we put in:
*a 15' rope line (hand over hand climb from a tall post to a tree).
*a 30' zip line from the same post to a different tree
*a 10' fireman pole slide
*a 10' vertical rope climb
*a 10' parallel bars

This was added to the stuff from last weekend; 7' rock wall which leads to 8' span of monkey bars, which reverses to 8' rope swings, which reverses back to 1" holds for ultimate cliffhanger.

...and that all attaches back to the original playground which is 2 towers, one set of monkey rings, 5' rock wall, 5' bear climb and 2 slides.

This thing is getting massive and the crazy part - my wife says I can keep going!

[KalessinDB]

You sir, have a great family all around.

[Luke]

This thing is getting massive and the crazy part - my wife says I can keep going!

Were the parts labeled?

I've put together two giant jungle gyms, and both times the parts weren't labeled, so some time was lost on measuring each part. Fairly simple set up actually, but when you know kids will be playing on "your work" you definitely pay more attention to detail.

Smile:

I have a blurry photo (Hobie's favorite kind) of a funny advertisement for a local Handyman.

I know plenty of Handymen who aren't idiots. And I know people who print ads almost always proof the work before bringing ink into the equation, but not this time. The sign reads:
1st line)
HANYMAN DO IT ALL

I knew he meant "handyman" as there was a graphic of a hammer on the magnet.

Not "Handyman does it all" nor "Handymen do it all", but HANYMAN DO IT ALL.

2nd line)
Pressurewashing, Carpet, No Job to small, No job to big!

Not "pressure washing, carpentry, no job too big or small".

3rd line)
Call Me!

No phone number.


Who would trust a job with this man? He's obviously self employed, and is Eastern Carolinian through and through. And I do believe in idiot savants, but this ad made me think twice about that theory.

"No job to big". Yikes.

[TSTR]

Lost a good Sniper in XCOM: EU
Blue Devils
Gamecocks
Coming in last at 4P Mario Party 8

[Opa Opa]

Ticked: My laptop is about to bite the dust and that means my MS Office goes down with it.

I'm seriously considering doing without Office when I get another computer. All ten billion college computers have the software. I'll probably just save the $100+ and type my papers up on a free word processing program and convert them to .doc on a university computer.

[jp1]

Ticked: My laptop is about to bite the dust and that means my MS Office goes down with it.

I'm seriously considering doing without Office when I get another computer. All ten billion college computers have the software. I'll probably just save the $100+ and type my papers up on a free word processing program and convert them to .doc on a university computer.

Open Office has always been great for me. It has native support to output in MS Office formats. I rarely get any complaints about compatibility.

[TSTR]

Yeah, go OpenOffice or LibreOffice. I'm an OO guy, myself.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Ticked: My laptop is about to bite the dust and that means my MS Office goes down with it.

I'm seriously considering doing without Office when I get another computer. All ten billion college computers have the software. I'll probably just save the $100+ and type my papers up on a free word processing program and convert them to .doc on a university computer.

Are you a student? Many universities sell a discounted version of Office.

[lisalover1]

Ticked: My laptop is about to bite the dust and that means my MS Office goes down with it.

I'm seriously considering doing without Office when I get another computer. All ten billion college computers have the software. I'll probably just save the $100+ and type my papers up on a free word processing program and convert them to .doc on a university computer.

Google Docs is your friend. It's free, you never have to worry about losing a file, it's accessible from any device with a web browser, it does everything that an average user would expect from Office applications, and it lets you download your files as .doc/.docx formats.

[Opa Opa]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

Are you a student? Many universities sell a discounted version of Office.

Last I checked you got ~10% off buying from the university. All that covers is tax essentially.